Arrowhead Case Essay

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Uniontown, Alabama African Americans residing in the neighborhood of Uniontown, Alabama voiced their opinions on the detrimental effects of approving Arrowhead, one of the largest acre landfills in the State of Alabama. Perry County in Uniontown, Alabama residents are “ 68% of African American” constituents and “35% of them fall below the poverty line, making it Alabama’s poorest county.” In retro spec to Uniontown, Alabama, “88% of the residents are African-American and almost half live in poverty.” In 2003, the city council ignored the pleas of the Perry County constituents and voted to allow Arrowhead to reside 1.5 miles away from Uniontown, Alabama. Residents were furious for Arrowhead settling in their community because the landfill was “permitted to accept up to 7,500 tons of waste per day, with a waste stream generated from an unprecedented 16 states.” It is important to realize that this situation was very unusual to the local residents, because the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADM) cleared the landfill to proceed, fully aware …show more content…

They claimed that the clearance of dumping hazardous waste from the Tennessee spill to Arrowhead in Uniontown, Alabama was a violation of the of the civil rights clause. The intentions of the Civil Rights Act Title VI is to, “prevent discrimination by government agencies that receive federal funds,” and the petitioner is arguing that ADM should be reviewed because this corporation receives “millions of dollars in financial assistance from the EPA each year.” In response to these allegations presented in this case, ADM emphasized that they did give permits to these companies without regards “to the racial composition of any impacted communities,” and that they were deeply outraged at the citizens tattering Arrowhead’s

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